Victorian Contexts: Literature and the Visual Arts

✍ Scribed by Murray Roston (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 271
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Examines how both artist and writer in the Victorian era responded to the shared challenges, assumptions, and dilemmas of their time, often unaware that the same problems were being confronted in the kindred media. The placing of such writers as Dickens, G.Eliot, Hopkins, and Henry James within the context of Victorian painting, architecture, and interior design offers fresh insights into their works, as well as reassessments of such themes as the mid-century representation of the Fallen Woman or the impact of commodity culture upon contemporary aesthetic standards.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Carlyle’s ‘Fire-Baptism’....Pages 7-40
The Fallen Woman....Pages 41-67
Commodity Culture in Dickens and Browning....Pages 68-113
George Eliot and the Horizons of Expectation....Pages 114-129
Hopkins as Poetic Innovator....Pages 130-159
The Art of Henry James....Pages 160-195
Back Matter....Pages 196-246

✦ Subjects

Nineteenth-Century Literature; Fine Arts; Architectural History and Theory

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